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Donkey Kong Bananza Spoilers without context

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Lately I have taken to writing assorted articles on Substack. Here I discuss my own thoughts on the numerous challenges video game preservation efforts face.

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Top: in Donkey Kong Bananza, the font used for the UI and dialogue is called "Ad Lib". Interestingly, the choice of this specific typeface appears to be an extremely deep reference to the history of the series.

Middle: this typeface was used in the 1990s in various promotional material for Donkey Kong Country games, such as the big captions in the official Nintendo Power guide for Donkey Kong Country.

Bottom: in addition, it even made its way to material included with the games themselves, such as the Donkey Kong 64 manual.

If this is an intentional reference, it demonstrates the lengths to which the development team has gone to research the history of the series. If it is not intentional, it is a remarkable coincidence.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: Cameron Reigle

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Bizarre pin promoting a 1992 French video game competition benefiting lung health, depicting Raccoon Mario as a loose collection of body parts with visible lungs.

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Donkey Kong Bananza Direct spoilers without context

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DOOM The Dark Ages Spoilers without context

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Full recording of the "Wario Press Conference" sound file available for download from Nintendo of America's official site in 2003, featuring over 6 minutes of Charles Martinet speaking full sentences as Wario to promote WarioWare: Mega Microgames and Wario World.

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Officially licensed Yoshi mask on display at the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas at their "Off-Model Mario" exhibit. Note the placement of the eyeholes and nostril holes.

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SONiC MEGA COLLECTiON Sega GameCube 2002

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'Super Bubsy'

[PC] [SOUTH KOREA] [MAGAZINE] [1997]

Nothing much to say here. It's a port of the first Bubsy game with a bonus copy of the unaired cartoon series.

What I find most interesting is that if you throw the Korean here into Google Translate, the game is named "Super Law City" and stars a character named "Lawshi"... and that "all Earthlings are naked."

Have fun with this information.

Source: Game Champ, July 1997 || RetroCDN; Asagoth

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Against all odds and by some miracle, I actually managed to score a Switch 2 pre order from Walmart the night they went live. Turns out letting everyone else fight in line over the Mario Kart World bundle has its advantages

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Three-page fold-out from a 1997 Nintendo of America's press kit, featuring a cropped Super Mario 64 render with the caption "the biz".

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When the camera is switched to rear view in some areas of Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, it is possible for other racers to clip into the camera in the manner shown in the screenshot.

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WRECK IT RALPH BANANZAAAA!!!!

the games play style has been compared to wreck it ralph

e.g. you can smash terrain to break it and excavate it to mine stuff

and pick up rock from a rock to excavate even faster

so i replaced dk with ralph! hope you love this!

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It's somewhat unfortunate that it took Switch 2 to remind gamers that yes, politics does, in fact, affect you whether you like it or not.

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Donkey Kong Bananza - 2025

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The people bemoaning Mario Kart World being 80 dollars likely never had to experience the pain a Sega kid in 90s felt having to shell out 100 dollars for a copy of Virtua Racing on Genesis.